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Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2023

Last night, a boy was injured in a shooting near the intersection of 6th and Garrett streets. Police have released very little information about the incident, other than to say the boy is in stable condition.

The shooting coincided with a power outage that affected about 2,400 people in and around the Belmont neighborhood, according to CBS19. It’s unclear if the two incidents are connected, though one of our reporters who lives in Belmont said they could hear what sounded like an explosion just before the lights went out.

This child is the 14th person either injured or killed in shootings in Charlottesville since September. That number does not include the three University of Virginia students killed on campus last year, as UVA is technically part of Albemarle County.

A district court judge this week threw out former Charlottesville Police Chief RaShall Brackney’s lawsuit that alleged city officials discriminated against her based on her race and gender when they fired her in 2021.

The simple explanation for why Judge Norman Moon dismissed the suit is that Brackney did not present enough facts to support her case.

“You need a short course on employment law and procedure to understand” the details of the judge’s decision, UVA Law Professor George Rutherglen told me yesterday. “But the law, in general, is this: A plaintiff has to give...

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